Visual culture
15 August 2008
A party
the magazine department
To celebrate Eye’s independence, our latest issue, and the new Eye blog
A few pictures from the Eye party at Kemistry.
14 August 2008
Le Gun ‘sells out’
luke pendrell
But are they cut out for mainstream publishing success?
Above: D&AD guest finds someone to take home. (Who is this? let us know!) Photograph: Christine Donnier-Valentin.
7 August 2008
Propaganda on cheap paper
steven heller
In Eye no. 67, Steven Heller reviewed Paper Tigers (Chronicle) the Cushing and Tompkins book about Chinese posters from 1966-76, the period known as the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. You can read his review here, and see below for some images we didn’t have room to show in the published issue.
5 August 2008
A raid on sacred cows
mary ann bolger
The Táin demonstrates how design can contribute to a nation’s sense of itself
Graphic design heroes might be, as Martha Scotford noted, Western white men, but they’re a particular kind of Western, white, man: there are few Finns, Greeks or Irish in the canon. As a 1992 article in Graphis asked: ‘Where are the Paul O’Rands, the Milton McGlasers?’
2 August 2008
Good at needlework?
the research department
Stock seeks your views on the meaning of success for women designers
Jennifer Campbell-Colquhoun and Selina Swayne want to know what you think about graphic design and designers. Their project Stock aims ‘to take a snapshot
31 July 2008
Feel like a beer?
cherriss firbank
Royal College graduates take to the bottles – 27m of them
Artists are often reluctant to be labelled, except perhaps when it comes to seeing their work on a beer label.
30 July 2008
Blinded by the light
david thompson
When I asked a member of Sheffield’s Millennium Gallery staff where I’d find the Advanced Beauty exhibition of digital video art, he politely confessed to having no idea what I was talking about, writes David Thompson.
28 July 2008
Don’t blame the Zippos
david barringer
During the 1965-73 Vietnam war, writes David Barringer, American soldiers etched slogans and images on to the metal of the Zippo lighters they carried with them, and which, notoriously, were on occasion used to set huts on fire.